The Emotionally Safe Marriage [Emotionally Healthy Marriage 2 of 5]
Famous at Home
Josh + Christi Straub
4.9 • 653 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
What is emotional safety? And how do you cultivate an emotionally safe marriage? In this episode, Josh and Christi define and describe emotional safety, talk about what an elephant is in marriage, and how to be your true self in hard conversations with your spouse.
They talk about:
- Approaching conversations in love rather than fear
- Having an "us against the world" mindset
- How to talk to your spouse about feeling emotionally safe
We hope you download the pdf files that go along with these episodes (found in show notes below) and use them in your small groups, with your spouse, or as a companion guide to the content.
Show Notes:
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Time stamps:
(0:55) Introduction
(3:42) What is emotional safety?
(6:48) Evaluating emotional safety in your marriage
(11:45) How emotional safety plays itself out in marriage
(13:40) Addressing elephants in marriage
(14:30) Why we numb and avoid each other
(15:48) Introducing safety back into the system
(21:18) Emotional safety and relationship with God
(21:48) Practical ways to reset nervous system even if your spouse is not on board
(24:30) Disclaimer on physical safety
(24:58) Continued ways to reset nervous system and introduce safety
(27:24) Talking about sex in marriage
(31:05) The hope and practical ways of introducing safety back into the marriage
(35:25) Taking fear out of a marriage conversation, no matter the topic
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | We are going to introduce safety even if it costs me something, and safety will always cost me something. |
| 0:06.7 | Good. |
| 0:07.2 | But on the other side of that cost is a freedom in relationship that you will not get without |
| 0:13.7 | pressing into that. |
| 0:14.7 | Because otherwise, you will stay stuck at probably a five or a six or a four to six in your |
| 0:20.3 | range of intimacy in your marriage and you'll |
| 0:22.3 | never get beyond because with suffering comes perseverance and perseverance character and character |
| 0:26.9 | hope like our ability to press through those moments are what bring hope and joy and peace |
| 0:33.2 | and love and character right like that's what's on the other side of doing that. |
| 0:39.2 | You are listening to the Famous at Home podcast with Dr. Josh and Christy Straub. |
| 0:45.0 | Because when it's all said and done, we all want to know that we were famous at home. |
| 0:54.6 | Welcome back to the famous and home podcast. |
| 0:57.1 | Today we are in part two of five, of a five part series. |
| 1:01.7 | Yeah, right, two of five. |
| 1:03.0 | That means it is a five part series on cultivating an emotionally healthy marriage. |
| 1:07.8 | Ladies, I just want to start with this, tender and fierce. |
| 1:10.4 | The signups are going |
| 1:12.0 | well. We're so excited about this coaching cohort with Christy. It begins August the 7th. |
| 1:18.8 | Wednesday nights, 7 p.m. Central Standard Time, the course, the community. It is an incredible |
| 1:23.8 | group of women. You can read the testimonies from previous, from the previous cohort on the website. |
| 1:30.3 | We put that in the show notes today. The registration deadline is coming up, so we would love for you to |
| 1:35.0 | sign up for that. I also want to mention here as we do these series on marriage in this summer |
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